Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Tatiana felt like she was being plunged into an icy abyss, with a hurricane of cold sweeping through her chest. The flush of embarrassment on her cheeks drained away, leaving her face pale.

As she looked into Sinead's tear-filled eyes, she saw through her pretense and detected the disdain in her heart.

In the past, she might have turned and fled, hiding in a corner and wallowing in self-pity and tears. But this time, an inexplicable courage surged within her—a courage to face the Lynches directly.

She loved Sean. That was all.

Was love wrong? Why should she bow down to them?

If she ran away in disgrace now, wouldn't she be tacitly agreeing that what Sinead said was true?

"Ms. Tatiana, do you understand what I'm saying?" Sinead still appeared frail and helpless, but her tone was icy.

Sean's shoulders trembled with anger. The veins in his neck bulged as if about to burst. "You can vent your anger at me! How dare you speak to the woman I love like this? What has Taty done to deserve this treatment from you?"

to your mother like that? This is absurd!" Spencer finally couldn't hold back

and bewilderment—bewildered by the abrupt transformation

was capable of capturing men's hearts, was too intimidating. She had diverted his

"What did I do? I was just having a woman-to-woman chat with Ms. Tatiana. What's the use of telling you? Can you even

Tatiana, you're Mr. Taylor and Lyla's daughter. Even though you're not born to his first wife like Alyssa, you're still his flesh and blood.

love Sean, you should let him go. You shouldn't force him to choose between love and

Under tremendous anger,

the same mother who had raised

possessiveness and a

did this maternal love become

Spencer's pupils contracted slightly.

But if she didn't act like this, how could